I see similiar things, NYSE usually doesn't usually go down, but everyone has technical difficulties. Most trading is done away from the floor now, so the Tech is super important to people. We usually put in specific connections back to the NYSE or Bloomberg to Client trading floors. I've seen that side of things break plenty.

yea, I have no idea what took the router out in the first place. That I'll leave to the conspiracy theories. to help, there was talk about cisco building in a backdoor to equipment at one point, so if that was true and was found, someone could brick the devices. #SomeoneHadAPlan

on the other hand, routing gives me a headache so i believe it can get FUBAR pretty easily.

Lets all take our foil hats off and think rationally. These thing can all be explained. Greece borrowed well beyond their means after entry into the Eurozone and doesn't want to pay it back; any one who has watched China's stock market over the last few years could see a bubble forming and it was predicted to pop, United Airlines being down (from what I understand from a friend at Oracle) is that they had a database system error United has said it was router issue (from user FriendsWithPools), and this appears to just be a down network issue.

That's a little tin foil hatty, but at the same time... this down time is really good for the Chinese stocks because they were taking a beating. If I was more of a conspiracy theorist I would be rushing to blame Chinese government hackers for this right now.

Who knows, you might be right. If Assange and Snowden and other leakers in the news over the past few years have taught us anything it's that we usually aren't paranoid enough.

Who would have the capability and motive to hack UA, a German Missile and the NYSE? I'm not sure I see the connection. Someone below suggested maybe the NYSE bought themselves time because of what's going on in China but to be honest, any Financial Advisor/Fund manager worth their salt would have seen the signs from far. Seems a little tin foil hat to me.

Agreed. China's bubble and the issues in Greece have been on the radar of people who need/should/get paid to know for over a year (years with Greece). The coincidental timing of the default and sell off are unfortunate but not related. The issues in China were internally born and the EU problems have little to do with the adjustment in the Chinese market.

We are network dependent, so bad things happen when network systems fail. This doesn't warrant bugging out to the shelter just because a few systems fail or are compromised within a close time frame.

...oh, it's just a glitch! Never mind that the CHINESE Stock Exchange is in free fall.

Think, people! Here is the MSM treating you like the muppets that they want you to be. Every talking head "Economic reporter" is pushing the same line that this is just an unfortunate coincidence? Who believes this shit?

Kramer (Cramer), that douche bag that entirely "missed" the 2008 crash is mouthing the party line here. Is he divesting when he is off camera? You bet he is.

The Masters of the Universe are plopping-down all their Media chips to push the "CALM!" button with the public.

The smart money is already out and the muppets are going to be left to soak up the harm.

I find it funny that so many people have blind faith in the same dipshits that were unable to predict the hyper obvious 2008 crash, which plenty of people who don't simply repeat dipshit propaganda also predicted just fine.

The fact of the matter is that the central banker scam is unsustainable and it's inevitably going to fail. The question is when, and it looks like it won't be too long... a matter of years, not decades.

Wall Street is heading for an imminent crash right now, and the NYSE brought itself offline covering as a "technical glitch" to keep panic from spreading while they figure out how to prevent an all out crash.

I'd really like to hear an expert in the field tell us his/her speculation about what's going on. Either way, there's something very fishy that doesn't add up, and I have a hunch today or the coming days might be historic.

The problem with theory #2 is that NYSE listed stocks were still able to be traded through other markets which absorbed the extra volume, like Nasdaq. So if they were trying to prevent a crash by halting trading they failed.